Scalding-tank



(No Model.) l 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

H. GEIGER.

l v SALDING VTANK. No. 303,635. Patented Aug. 19, 1884.

ooooo ooo ooo 0000 ooo@ ooooooo nooo ooooo o oocoo coco oo oooo an ooo nooo -ooo @nooo oo oooo o noo ooo o oo @ooo o oo onooo ooooeo 0.o ooo ooooo @ooo o oo ooooo oo oooo ooo o oooooo nooo ooo oo ooo oo no oo 000000060000130 ooc oooo ooo nooo B o o occ ooo ooooo oo o ooo o ooo o oo oc oo oooo c ooo o@ non oo eooooocoooooooo c coo o @c oo o@ ccoo o oocooooo ooooc@ O oaoo oooooooooo ooooooeooooopoo o u ooo o ce oo o ooo o c o ce oo no o ou oo co 00000300000 oocoooooao oooooo e o oo osoocoooco ooooo'oooao 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

H. GEIGER.

v333311131133 TANK.

No. 303,333. Patented Aug. 19, 1334.

vmrraew:

ilNiTnn STATES HENRY GEIGER, OF FOX LAKE, VISCONSIN.A

SCALDlNG-TANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Application filed May 26, 1883.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY GEIGER, a citi- -zcn of the United States, residing at Fox Lake, in Dodge county, Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steaming and Scalding Tanks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of refer ence marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. y

The object of my invention is to provide an apparatus to serve the two fold purpose of a steamer for steaming and storing feed and of a scalding-tank to be used in dressing hogs, the construction of which is further explained zo by reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my apparatus provided with a single combustion-chamber. Fig. 2 is a perforated removable bottom, used onlywhen steaming and storing feed. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the combustion-chamber and pipe apart from the tank. Fig. 4 is also a perspective View of `my apparatus provided with two combustionchambers. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of 3o my tank with the top removed, showing the false bottom in position for use as a feedsteamer and also showingl the metal lining and its attachment at the top of the tank. Fig. 6 is a cross-section showing the sides of the tank, the metal lining, the combustion-chamber, the supporting-rods and their attachments, and the false bottom in position for use as a feed-steamer.

Like parts are represented by the same referencc-letters in all the views.

The sides and ends of the tank A are made of strong heavy lumber, and are provided with a water-tight sheet-metal lining, which lining Z is rigidly joined to an upwardlycurved metal bottom, a, by water-tight joints, which metal bottom serves also as the top of the combustion chamber, and is preferably made of heavier metal' than the lining of the sides and ends of the tank. The combustion 5o chamber extends beneath the bottom a from No. 303,635, dated August 19, 1884.

(No model.)

one end of thc tank nearly to its other extremity, but has a metal enda little short oi' the rear end of the tank, that the heat of the chamber may not be communicated directly to the wood-work of the tank at its rear end, and the chamber is provided with a door or opening at its frontend and with a pipe, b, at its rear end, all adapted to permit proper combustion therein. The lid cl is hinged to the side of the tank at the top, and is provided with hinged folding legs c c, which lid when open is adapted to form a table upon which the operation of dressing hogs may be carried on.

VThe tank is provided with the removable rods c, provided at each end with hooks adapted to engage in staples rigidly inserted in the sides of the tank a little above the top of the curved bottom a, which rods may be readily removed, if desired, when thetank is used for scalding purposes, and on which rods, when placed in the tank, the false bottom B (shown in Fig. 2) is supported, as appears in Figs. 5 and 6, thereby adapting the tank for use as a steamer or storer of feed.

The tank is provided with a faucet, f, for drawing off the water, and the tanky may, if desired, be supported by an iron frame, g, or other suitable means.

rlhe tank may be allowed to rest on the ground; but I prefer to use a second metal bottom, h, (shown in Figs. 4 and 6,) and rest the whole on a metal frame with short legs, as shown in Fig. l.

I am aware that it is old to line boilers or tanks of this kind with sheet-iron, also to supply them with false bottoms, and that hooked rods have been used in connection with staples in the walls for supports, and I do not claim these features, broadly, but only as hereinafter stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. rIhe tank A, having heavy wooden sides and ends, lined with a water-tight sheet-metal lining, rigidly attached by water-tight joints to an upwardly-curving metal bottom, resting on a fiat lower second bottom, forming therewith a chamber adapted for a combus- IOO tion-Chamber beneath the tank, substanlialiy as and for the purpose specified.

2. The tank A, having heavy Wooden sides and ends, lined with a watertight sheet-metal 5 lining, rigidly attached With water-tight joints to an upward-eurving metal bottoni, in combination with the removable supporting-rods c, with their hookturned ends, and the retaining-staples i, inserted in the inneil sides ot said tank, and the perforated metal false bot- IO toin B, al1 substantially as and for the pun pose specified.

HENRY GEIGER. 'Vitnesses:

GEORGE l). PARRITT, J. B. HEWIT. 

